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Defense Sec. Robert Gates Refuses To Answer Questions About Karzai's Brother

By CSPANJunkie Thursday Dec 03, 2009 3:00pm

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Posner: Taliban trying to addict US soldiers to heroin

By David Wednesday Oct 21, 2009 10:00am

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Investigative journalist Gerald Posner told MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan that the Taliban is using heroin as a tactical weapon against US soldiers. "They understand this is an additional weapon and getting their money, as you said, from the heroin and opium crop and looking at the possibility of hooking Americans not only on the cheap heroin but according to the U.S. intelligence report and picking up conversations, they developed the ability now for smokeable heroin," explained Posner.

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